It’s the fourth time that Canada has imposed sanctions against individuals linked to Maduro’s government. Venezuela’s political crisis deepened after the highly anticipated July 28 presidential election, which both Maduro and the political opposition claim to have won.

The heightened scrutiny of the Border Patrol’s Texas holding facilities is part of broader court-appointed oversight.

Roughly a fourth of the people detained in Venezuela during the civil unrest that followed the July presidential election have been granted prison release orders, the country’s chief prosecutor announced Monday.

Members of Venezuela’s political opposition who have been sheltering for months in the Argentine diplomatic compound in the capital, Caracas, on Saturday detailed their deteriorating living conditions as they sought to grow a sense of urgency among the governments working to secure their safe departure from their home country.

The U.N. office on human rights in Venezuela partially resumed operations in recent weeks, the agency’s chief said Friday, months after the government of President Nicolás Maduro expelled its staff for allegedly helping coup plotters and terror groups.

A Colombian man who helped kidnap two U.S. Army soldiers in Bogota four years ago became the second person to plead guilty in the case, according to the Justice Department.

The premier of Canada’s largest province said he will cut off energy to the United States if President-elect Donald Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on all Canadian products.

A gang leader accused of killing more than 100 people in Haiti’s capital to avenge his son’s death was still persecuting residents on Tuesday.

Mexico’s president said Monday that much of the money gained by eliminating independent oversight and regulatory agencies will go to the army to fund a rise in soldiers’ pay.

A 34-year-old female pitcher has broken through baseball’s gender barrier by signing with an independent men’s league team, becoming the first woman to play Canadian pro baseball.